Sorted Japanese Cave (1-9)
(Eingestellt Heute, 06:00 Uhr von Playmaker6174)
Trying something else more refreshing and also for learning purpose here. The following puzzle is directly inspired by a series of LM leftover/practice puzzles that appeared on this site a while ago.
I initially aimed for a good approachable puzzle at first but at one point in the setting, I accidentally discovered a cool mid solve idea that ultimately led me into thinking of setting a whole distinct puzzle with it instead, and so the whole thing went from there...
From what I checked, the puzzle has a rather consistent difficulty throughout but it should also deliver more and more as the solve goes on too.
Special thanks to Wisty and KNT for testing this one and the valuable feedback as well! For now, do enjoy the puzzle!
Short version of the rules: Japanese Sum and Cave hybrid puzzle for the digits ranging from 1-9, but the Japanese Sum clues have been sorted according to their values in their row/column.
Full version of the rules:
- In the 11x11 grid, shade some cells so that all unshaded cells must form a single orthogonally connected area and every orthogonally connected area of shaded cells must connect to the grid perimeter.
- Place a digit from the range 1-9 into every unshaded cell so that digits don't repeat in any row/column of the grid.
- Sorted Japanese Sums:
+ A circle clue outside a row/column corresponds to exactly one continuous group of unshaded cells, and its contained numerical value shows the sum of all digits in that group, if given. Group of shaded cell[s] separates between the clues.
+ Outside every row/column, either all circle clues or none of them are given. However, in any case of given circle clues, they've been sorted in non-decreasing order according to their values instead, where the sorted order is from left to right for the rows and from top to bottom for the columns. The actual correct order of the clues may or may not match with the given sorted order.
+ Each question mark (?) corresponds to any digit from 0-9 but a single digit clue cannot be zero (0) and for the case of two digits number, the first digit cannot be zero (0).
Puzzle: Penpa plus - Sudokupad
The answer check in penpa link will activate once both following conditions are met: the shading is correctly done and the digits are correctly filled in the 11x11 grid. Good luck and have fun solving!
I initially aimed for a good approachable puzzle at first but at one point in the setting, I accidentally discovered a cool mid solve idea that ultimately led me into thinking of setting a whole distinct puzzle with it instead, and so the whole thing went from there...
From what I checked, the puzzle has a rather consistent difficulty throughout but it should also deliver more and more as the solve goes on too.
Special thanks to Wisty and KNT for testing this one and the valuable feedback as well! For now, do enjoy the puzzle!
Short version of the rules: Japanese Sum and Cave hybrid puzzle for the digits ranging from 1-9, but the Japanese Sum clues have been sorted according to their values in their row/column.
Full version of the rules:
- In the 11x11 grid, shade some cells so that all unshaded cells must form a single orthogonally connected area and every orthogonally connected area of shaded cells must connect to the grid perimeter.
- Place a digit from the range 1-9 into every unshaded cell so that digits don't repeat in any row/column of the grid.
- Sorted Japanese Sums:
+ A circle clue outside a row/column corresponds to exactly one continuous group of unshaded cells, and its contained numerical value shows the sum of all digits in that group, if given. Group of shaded cell[s] separates between the clues.
+ Outside every row/column, either all circle clues or none of them are given. However, in any case of given circle clues, they've been sorted in non-decreasing order according to their values instead, where the sorted order is from left to right for the rows and from top to bottom for the columns. The actual correct order of the clues may or may not match with the given sorted order.
+ Each question mark (?) corresponds to any digit from 0-9 but a single digit clue cannot be zero (0) and for the case of two digits number, the first digit cannot be zero (0).
Puzzle: Penpa plus - Sudokupad
The answer check in penpa link will activate once both following conditions are met: the shading is correctly done and the digits are correctly filled in the 11x11 grid. Good luck and have fun solving!
Lösungscode: Enter row 9 from left to right first, then column 9 from top to bottom (the marked row and column) - enter the letter S for each shaded cell and the corresponding digit for each unshaded cell.
Gelöst von KNT, wisty
Kommentare
Heute, 14:11 Uhr von wisty
Really great puzzle! Memorable opening, and some really weird (good) spots that helped me shake off the jsums solving cobwebs, thanks.
Heute, 09:12 Uhr von KNT
Really fun, thanks!
